NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Running rabbitmq-service.bat allows the RabbitMQ broker to be run as a service in Windows® environments. The RabbitMQ broker service can be started and stopped using the Windows® services panel.

By default the service will run in the authentication context of the local system account. It is therefore necessary to synchronise Erlang cookies between the local system account (typically C:\Windows\.erlang.cookie and the account that will be used to run rabbitmqctl(8).

COMMANDS

help

Display usage information.

install

Install the service. The service will not be started. Subsequent invocations will update the service parameters if relevant environment variables were modified.

remove

Remove the service. If the service is running then it will automatically be stopped before being removed. No files will be deleted as a consequence and rabbitmq-server(8) will remain operable.

start

Start the service. The service must have been correctly installed beforehand.

stop

Stop the service. The service must be running for this command to have any effect.

disable

Disable the service. This is the equivalent of setting the startup type to Disabled using the service control panel.

enable

Enable the service. This is the equivalent of setting the startup type to Automatic using the service control panel.

ENVIRONMENT

RABBITMQ_SERVICENAME

Defaults to RabbitMQ.

RABBITMQ_BASE

Note: Windows only. Defaults to the application data directory of the current user. This is the location of log and database directories.

RABBITMQ_NODENAME

Defaults to “rabbit@”. followed by the computed hostname. Can be used to run multiple nodes on the same host. Every node in a cluster must have a unique RABBITMQ_NODENAME To learn more, see the RabbitMQ Clustering guide

RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS

By default RabbitMQ will bind to all IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces available. This variable limits the node to one network interface or address family. To learn more, see the RabbitMQ Networking guide

RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT

AMQP 0-9-1 and AMQP 1.0 port. Defaults to 5672. To learn more, see the RabbitMQ Networking guide

ERLANG_SERVICE_MANAGER_PATH

Defaults to C:\Program Files\erl{version}\erts-{version}\bin (or C:\Program Files (x86)\erl{version}\erts-{version}\bin for 64-bit environments). This is the installation location of the Erlang service manager.

RABBITMQ_CONSOLE_LOG

Set this variable to new or reuse to have the console output from the server redirected to a file named SERVICENAME.debug in the application data directory of the user that installed the service. Under Vista this will be C:\Users\AppData\username\SERVICENAME. Under previous versions of Windows this will be C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\SERVICENAME. If RABBITMQ_CONSOLE_LOG is set to new then a new file will be created each time the service starts. If RABBITMQ_CONSOLE_LOG is set to reuse then the file will be overwritten each time the service starts. The default behaviour when RABBITMQ_CONSOLE_LOG is not set or set to a value other than new or reuse is to discard the server output.

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